hehe
I will bet 1BTC

1BTC
15biX1PuYGUnN9XwcuDJkDLbhAHVaasjnp
I win

hell yea!

@OP How is it that you are doubling if on a 20BTC bet you only will be sending 20BTC when you lose?

Because I'm not holding the moneys. These posts are for commitments to pay only. As in, you could say you're going to pay 20BTC, so if you win, why would I send you 40BTC?

Also, would someone please quote the OP so that it can't be said that I changed it later?

or he just wants easy money?
if hes sure he's gonna win his bet why not.

You have to use escrow for bets if you are serious, otherwise there is no way to enforce debt collection in case either party lose.

@Otomakan Ishotas: Please read the OP. You're not an established member.

the title of this thread is misleading.
if you bet and win, your gain is 100%, not 200%

Thanks for doing this. I'll be eagerly watching this thread to see how commited the anti-pirate blowhards are.

No- Matthew pays if Pirate stiffs anyone. He is not hedging a Pirate default; he is doubling down on Pirate.

We are a very diverse team, many things we do not agree on. One thing we agree on is absolute transparency in businesses. We also agree that if you're anonymous, you're not worth even talking to. None of our contributors are allowed to be anonymous either (unless they're wikileaking things). I do not support the anonymous movement. However, Vladimir and many others like to use the "If it walks like a duck" line. I walk like a duck. Quack. I'm definitely not a duck though, so I have sympathy for trade secrets, idiots and unprofessionals and don't like to assume the worst. In my posts I often "draw out" people's true intentions by pretending to believe they are scammers, but once I realize they're legitimate, I apologize and begin to help them work towards a better image to avoid guys like me bothering them in the future. In pirate's case, he's not anonymous. Hardly. He's just not transparent. Is he a mafia kingpin? Maybe. If he is, would that mean he doesn't make money? The argument should never have been "is he a ponzi?", it should have been "Do we want morals involved in Bitcoin?" (SilkRoad? Assassinations? Give me a break.)

I respect Vladimir greatly for his security advice. He is spot on when it comes to the risk level of Pirate. I believe that is where the advice should stop however. When it comes to asserting opinions as absolutes, you lose my attention.

I am not locked up in anything, I have never participated in Pirate or any ponzi. If you look at my previous posts, I was one of the loudest mouths when it came to trying to get ponzis kicked off the forums. In fact, that's how I met JRO in the first place. I thanked him like this in PM out of the blue (paraphrased from memory):

"Dear Jonathan,

I fucking hate ponzis and I think they're ruining bitcoin and by extension, I hate you too for running bitcoinduit. That said, I have to give you credit and thanks for giving them a place to go so that we can have a cleaner forum. Cheers"